Improved mop



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD H. EWING, OF ELIZABETHTOWN, OHIO.

|MPP.ovED MOP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,734, dated J une?,1863 antedated March 11, 186:2.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RICHARD H. EWING, ofElizabethtown, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Mops; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings and letters ofreference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

Figure l is a perspective view of the mop, and Fig. 2 is a sectionalelevation of the same.

M v invention is in the nature of an article of manufacture; and itconsists in the form and construction of the implement as hereinafterdescribed.

A is the head-piece of the mop, consisting of an oblong block of woodabout one inch thick and of any convenient length and width. One of thelong edges of the block is bored centrally to the depth of about twoinches for the round handle B, which ts tightly and may be of anyconvenient length. The opposite edge of the head-piece is grooved with aflaring groove, a, as represented, extending from end to end. C is aclamp of stout wire resting loosely in groove a, and bent up at rightangles against the ends ofthe head-piece. The ends of the wire at adistance of one or two inches from the angles are formed into round eyesb. At points in the ends of the head-piece corresponding with the eyes bbitholes are bored, and these receive wire pins o, which likewise passthrough eyes b and confine the clamp to the headfpiece.

Fibrous material, D, when appropriately introduced between thehead-piece and the clamp and compressed by the latter into the groove,and the pins o afterward inserted through the eyes into the bit-holes,is trmly held and the implement is in condition for use.

To renew the fibrous material, the pins c are withdrawn, newmaterialintroduced and pressed into the groove by the clamp, and the pinsinserted as before.

The form and construction of my improved mop herein described aiiords asimple, inexpensive, and efficient implement.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is the following:

As a new and improved article of manufacture, the inop,substantially asherein described.

R. H. EWIN G.

Witnesses: v

STEPHEN COOPER, A. R. LIND.

